General Forum

I'm pretty sure, for display purposes, you could use one of those digital photo frame things that automatically scrolls the images like an old screen saver.

To me, this is more for investing and less about collecting.  Topps Bunt, for example, is an app with no rights to the user (a point that was misunderstood by several users in the early going).  It was a collecting app intended to be fun (and make Topps money).  Inevitably users started trying to sell their digital cards (they paid money to acquire them after all).  But at the end of the day, really, the user was better off viewing their spending on Bunt like they would on Xbox or games for their gaming system.  It was never intended to be any sort of investment for the user.  Having said that, I've doubled my money on Topps Bunt/Huddle without trying too hard.

Unlike Topps Bunt, I believe you'll own the rights to the digital cards you acquire through wax.  So there is that.

I've seen Topps Huddle turn into a ghost town once Topps lost the licensing.  No new product means no one is very interested in the app.  My concern with the new wax NFT release is if Topps ever loses their MLB rights, what will happen to the interest in your investment....

For me this hobby is about collecting the team and players I enjoy, I'm not expecting to make any money off these my personal collection.   Baseball Card Collecting is not about risk, gains and losses for me.  Trading stocks scares me, so do these NFTs.

I'm perfectly fine with Bunt for digital cards. loads cheaper and less gimicky.

It's definitely not for me- I think it's foolish, actually- but I will say this: hopefully it will drive all the flippers/speculators out of the physical card market and make unopened product easy to obtain again at an affordable price. Not to mention, cause the prices on singles to come back to earth.

just to put $ in the "wax" app is $50 minimum so that covers your first 10 packs at $5 each (6 cards per pack)?

Worse yet, try using your phone when it's encapsilated in a PSA holder. 

I'm 60, so fall into the old codger who loves old stuff camp.  But, I fell hard for digital photography.  When the concept first arrived, I thought there was no way digital photography could replace film.  A few years later, I was spending money on cameras and software, and it really opened up a whole new world for me.  I enjoy looking at my photos on my computer or my phone and the ease in which I can share them with others.

I've found myself debating whether I really want to acquire any more cardboard either.  I love being able to peruse a gallery of vintage or modern cards on TCDB.

But, collecting baseball cards is far more rooted in my youth than photography.  I enjoy looking at cards and sorting cards because that's what I did as a kid.  Collecting carboard makes me happy.  I already know I enjoy looking at digital images of baseball cards.  But it doesn't connect with me like the tangible cards I now collect and will continue to collect.

And if the NFTs attract the speculator/investor types out of cardboard, I'm happy with that too.

It's all good.

Baseball cards make me happy.

So I have been hanging out in discord of the company doing this. Today was the release and it was a complete nuclear dumpster explosion.